7 security officers, two civil servants killed in one day during PKK attacks

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Seven members of security officials, including a captain, as well as two civil servants were killed in attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey's southeastern districts on Feb. 9. 

Two soldiers and one police officer were killed and one soldier and one policeman were injured in attacks in southeastern provinces of Diyarbak?r and ??rnak. 

The latest attack occurred after security forces spotted around 10 PKK militants attempting to infiltrate Turkish territory at 6:30 p.m. 

Two soldiers and one police officer were killed and one soldier and one policeman were injured in attacks in southeastern provinces of Diyarbak?r and ??rnak. 

Two soldiers were wounded, one severely, as clashes erupted between security forces from the Cizre/Yüzsüren border patrol and the infiltrating militants. 

The Turkish Armed Forces released a statement on Feb. 10 about the attack, announcing that one of the soldiers was killed.

Soldier dies in hospital

"The wounded soldiers were transferred to a hospital, but despite all efforts our heavily wounded comrade-in-arms could not be saved," the statement said, adding that the soldier succumbed to his wounds at 9:30 p.m.

The identity of the soldier was not disclosed. Another soldier was killed in clashes that erupted during an operation against PKK militants in Diyarbak?r's Sur district. 

The soldier, identified by Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency as gendarmerie captain Fatih Ya?ar, succumbed to his wounds at Diyarbak?r Military Hospital at 11:45 p.m., according to another official statement by the Armed Forces. Meanwhile, an armored police vehicle on patrol duty was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade at 10.10 p.m. in ??rnak's Cumhuriyet...

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